What is something from the 80s/90s or early 2000s that you miss?

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  1. Not having social media like Facebook & Twitter, MTV playing music videos.

  4. Midnight release screenings of movies in highschool. Twilight, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter… I could hardly do a midnight viewing then but there’s absolutely no chance I could do one now.

    Also the superior music vibes of the 80s/90s/00s. Vanessa Amorosi is never going to release Absolutely Everybody again. Maroon 5 will never give us a whole album as good as Songs About Jane again. It’s really upsetting for me.

  5. I was born in the mid 90s, but I am currently OBSESSED with these 80s slouch socks.

  6. Can we have low rise wide leg pants back yet? I know they’ll be coming soon. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not asking for whale tails or tramp stamps, those can stay in the past, but high waisted stuff just doesn’t work for my body type and I can’t find anything else.

  7. Being part of the EU.

    Feeling like I wasn’t incredibly out of touch, baffled by popular culture, always on the back foot with technology.

    Also freedom. I didn’t have kids and commitments back then. If I wanted to leave a job, move half way across the world and do something totally different, then I could.

  10. Not being available 24/7. I miss shopping with no phone. Driving without having to answer texts.

  11. Good wide leg pants and chunky heeled sandals. I had a pair of summer sandals I could sprint in, wore them until they literally separated from the sole. I check shoe fashion every year to see if anything like them is making a comeback. No luck yet.

  13. Saturday morning kids TV in the UK in the late 80s/early 90s was amazing!

  14. 80/90’s letting little girls wear whatever they wanted and not being labeled. My entire childhood wardrobe, along with every one of my friends and cousins, was halter tops, tube tops, belly shirts, short shorts, bikinis…no one ever said a word about those things being too grown up or having negative connotations.

    Even in high school our dress code was basically “nothing obscene”.

    When did we decide to label the clothes as an issue?

  15. Proper low rise jeans. I keep seeing jeans masquerading as low rise online but they’re barely below the belly button. I want legit low rise jeans. They’re the only jeans that suit my body shape.

    I miss being uncontactable. People nowadays expects instant responses to calls, emails and texts. Personally, I view texting particularly as a “I will respond in my own time and not before” form of communication. The pressure of having to reply *now* pisses me off, as does the assumption that I’m not interested in a man because I didn’t respond immediately. I’m busy, piss off!

    Making definite plans. When meeting friends, the directions were clear – meet at 11am outside Our Price before moving on to Maccies and Woolies. We’d give anyone who was late 10 minutes. After that, tough shit.

    The music in the 80s, 90s and 00s was infinitely better than the shite that’s released now. There’s no real superstars, no global superstars, nowadays. They’re all flash in the pan, one good album and then nothing.

    Comedy. I grew up watching The Fast Show, Harry Enfield, Only Fools and Horses, AbFab, The Vicar of Dibley. There’s nothing like that on telly these days.

  17. MTV and my wardrobe. I had some awesome clothes back in the late 90s. If I was able to fit into them, I would still wear them today. And clothes were made to last back then. Now, I buy a shirt, I’m lucky if I can get a year out of it without it falling apart.

  19. I miss…

    Sudafed that works. The old formula was perfection.

    Being able watch planes from the gates. That was a whole day of fun for me.

    Driving tests… REAL driving tests and random re-testing upon DL renewal

    JBurns pizza in my hometown mall.

    Not knowing that a thing termed “reality tv” is on the horizon and it will be a shitshow.

    Siskel and Ebert

    Envelope jeans, leg warmers, slouch socks, neon, double polos, triple scrunchies, and Valley Girl, she’s a Valley Girl fer sure…

  22. No phones and emails. No photos on nights outs and no social media. Bliss

  23. Only born 99, but I’d say not being available all the fricking time. Also no social media to ruin my mental health.

  26. Not being an adult, CDs coming with a smell (like strawberry) and those Disney DVDs whose second DVD came with games!

  27. Being able to apply for jobs in person and not having to figure out how to appease some stupid algorithm

    The fact that I can be fully capable of a job but not even have my resume seen because a computer throws it out annoys me to no end

  29. Looking out across a restaurant, and not seeing a sea of silent tables with everyone staring at their phones.

  30. No social media!! people did not see themselves as a brand. People cared less what other thought because of social media.

    So because of that last week I deleted my facebook thats been with me since 2008. Lots of friends and memories after years of moving and traveling, and not to talk about all the memories in the messages. I was afraid to delete it completley but it is the most liberating feeling I had in a long time. Back to the 90s lifestyle..! ill keep reddit tho 😛

  31. I miss a lot of the 90’s alternative music. Looking back, I realize there were a lot of elements of folk music in both lyrics and sound

  32. the simplicity of things. A few weeks ago I had to fill out a form at a carecenter before being allowed to use their bathroom.

  33. a world where the primary form of entertainment was cable tv and not the internet/social media/iphones, going to the record store to buy cd’s, afternoon soap operas and talk shows like Montel and the Ricki Lake show, beepers, VHS, cassettes, smoking sections in restaurants, WWF, MTV shows like: total request live, true life, the real world, BET’s 106 and Park, phone booths, cabs instead of uber/lyfts, house phones, scholastic book fairs at school, the tv shows: mighty morphin power rangers, growing pains, all that, kenan and kel, daria, goosebumps, hey arnold, the corner store selling quarter/barrel juice, shopping malls were more crowded, mickie d’s tasted better, I miss those days 🥹

  34. Quality movies.

    No social media stuff to keep up with (I’m a teacher so I need to keep up with what the kids are up to, if I want to understand them!)

    Having the semblance of privacy

    Proud of my country (I’m American, first generation from immigrant parents. Don’t come at me, I can’t leave, my parents and my whole family is in the states)

  35. When phones were phones, not aggressive advertisement addiction machines

  36. Buying an actual album, putting it in my CD player and sitting on my inflatable sofa with my inflatable cushions full of feathers, and listening to the album in its entirety whilst reading the lyrics off the album sleeve.

  38. Miss when tech was less commercialized, companies couldn’t eavesdrop on us and bombard us with constant personalized ads no matter where we went

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